Re: Novel, Novella (was Re: Re: I'm new!)

Carlos Thompson replying to Dan Sulani:
-->About vocabulary in _telenovelas_, I don't thing you should care.  Of
>course they would pick regional dialects (Mexican, Venezolan,
>Argentinan, etc.) but the language is usually quite politically
>correct (even insults in Mexican/Venezolan telenovelas; Colombian ones
>are a little more colourfull).>
Exactly.  Spanish-language TV may be _suggestive_, but never foul-mouthed.
More power to them!  (Though at times it reminds me of the silly old days,
when the Marines took Iwo Jima to shouts of  "Golly, gee, darn it".  Harry
Truman caused a major flap when he referred, in a private letter, to a music
critic as an "S.O.B." )  Even Latino rockers, despite all the
leather/grunge, come across as rather sweet and innocent (at least on
TV)......